Safety and Environmental Engineering Resource

Our client, a defence prime, requires a safety and environmental engineer to lead and coordinate safety and environmental engineering activities on a major programme. You will maintain the safety case and environmental case, challenge supplier evidence and support governance through to approval and transition to service. The role is hybrid, with travel to supplier and operational sites as required.

What you will do

• Lead and coordinate safety and environmental engineering activities, maintaining an integrated programme aligned to design, trial, acceptance and approval milestones.
• Develop, maintain and assure the project safety argument and evidence, including hazard identification, analysis, risk reduction and the hazard log.
• Produce and update safety case reports, safety requirements, compliance evidence and ALARP and acceptability arguments.
• Maintain the Environmental Management System and environmental case, managing aspects, impacts, risks, objectives, targets and operational controls.
• Review and challenge supplier safety and environmental plans, analyses, designs and test evidence, defining actions and monitoring closure.
• Provide specialist advice on safety, environmental, regulatory and statutory requirements across manufacture, installation, operation, maintenance and disposal.
• Plan and support governance including working groups, panels, audits and independent assurance activity.
• Provide evidence packs for project approvals, acceptance and transition to service.

What you will bring

• Demonstrable safety engineering experience on complex defence, aerospace, infrastructure or other safety-related systems, including hazard identification, analysis, hazard-log management and safety-case development.
• Demonstrable environmental engineering or environmental management experience, including environmental aspects, impacts, compliance obligations and through-life controls.
• Experience applying structured safety and environmental management systems and producing auditable assurance evidence across design, manufacture, installation, test, operation and disposal.
• Ability to review supplier technical evidence, identify compliance or assurance gaps, provide constructive challenge and agree clear, owned, time-bound actions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including safety and environmental arguments, governance papers, panel outputs and senior stakeholder briefings.
• SC security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain it.

Nice to have

• Experience of defence acquisition and governance, and relevant defence safety and environmental policy and standards.
• Experience of radar, electronics, communications, operational infrastructure or other mission-critical systems deployed across multiple sites.
• Professional registration such as Chartered Engineer, Chartered Environmentalist or equivalent.
• Experience of independent safety assurance, HSRM/REACH compliance, environmental impact assessment, trials and transition into service.